QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.6md

13 km E of Meadow Bridge, West Virginia

· 16 km deep · released about 250 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Greenbrier County 24 kmSummers County 24 kmMonroe County 34 kmFayette County 40 kmRaleigh County 50 kmNicholas County 51 kmGiles County 58 kmCraig County 58 kmMercer County 60 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (md)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
23 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Greenbrier County, 24 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2693 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 23 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 250 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 61,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 43,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 3.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 250 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 37.8382, -80.7042. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Greenbrier County, WV 24 km (15 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Greenbrier County
Summers County, WV 24 km (15 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Summers County
Monroe County, WV 34 km (21 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Monroe County
Fayette County, WV 40 km (25 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Fayette County
Raleigh County, WV 50 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Raleigh County
Nicholas County, WV 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Nicholas County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

2 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.3 7 km NNE of Falling Spring, West Virginia
  2. 1.9 16 km ESE of Union, West Virginia

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.